As workers return to Yosemite National Park after the federal government shutdown there is a foreboding sense of more trouble to come. Park employees still worry about a so-called Reduction in Force ...

Dora Mae Demorest King Rotondo passed away at the age of 100 on Nov. 6, 2025, in Rapid City, S.D. Dora was born on April 9, 1925, in Tacoma, Wash., to Howard and Mabel Demorest. She lived in Tacoma ...

Rhonda Lynn Turner-Shackleton, of Catheys Valley, passed away peacefully on Nov. 5, 2025 at the age of 64. Rhonda was born in Yosemite Valley, Calif., on Feb. 10, 1961, to “Dee” Dolores J. (Turner) ...

I’ve had some interesting conversations over the past, well, several years actually, about what’s up with various organizations in Mariposa County. Just last week we reported a story about what ...

https://youtu.be/PngbtwEL3BE?si=2stweqSvLXWsnWUh Just hours before last Friday night’s heartbreaking loss for the Mariposa County High School football team in the ...

Mariposa Elementary School students celebrated Halloween in style as they held their annual Halloween costume parade down Jones Street in Mariposa last week.

Halo’s Hike shows the route to Mt. Ophir trail. Thanks to pioneer miners and settlers the Mother Lode is a vast storehouse of colorful, unusual names. Among them: Chili Gulch, Rough and Ready, Volcano ...

With just a couple games remaining in the regular season, the Mariposa County High School Grizzlies varsity flag football team has already secured the title of league champs once again this year. In a ...

Hazel Green “comfort” station. Photo by Linda Shepler In the summer of 1867, one of those chance events that can alter history took place. Transplanted easterners Dr. and Mrs. John McLean and son ...

A likely murder-suicide in Yosemite West remains under investigation. The incident in the resort area located adjacent to Yosemite National Park sent shock waves through the community, which is ...

Inside this week’s edition is our annual salute to area veterans and what they have meant to the country. The edition features several area veterans, important information and more.

Officials are saying little about an incident in Yosemite National Park recently that left a Yosemite Hospitality employee dead. The incident, according to sources, happened when a Yosemite ...